An explanation of what referential transparency means with examples in Swift

Hi everybody, I’m Riccardo. Senior iOS Engineer at Bending Spoons, I breathe iOS development, both apps and tools and I love to share my…

A WWDC20 Swift session walkthrough

At WWDC 20, Apple announced a new unified logging API to gather, process log messages, and help debug unexpected behavior

How to read and write Exif, GPS, IPTC, JFIF, TIFF and other metadata in image files using the CoreGraphics APIs on iOS and macOS

How to use the Speech framework to detect speech on iOS.

Cancelling an in-progress request is an important feature of any networking library, and it’s something we’ll want to support in this framework as well.

We finally get SVG supported and the best thing is it is backward compatible with some limitations.

Starting with Xcode 12, you can add more than just source code to your Swift packages.

It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, Swift Service Lifecycle. Service Lifecycle is a Swift package designed to help server applications, also known as services, manage their startup and shutdown sequences.

Starting with Xcode 12, you can add more than just source code to your Swift packages.

Exploring the power and flexibility offered by creating lists using UICollectionView.

We already covered master-detail navigation in SwiftUI on my blog. But today, I want to talk about the new three-column navigation that landed this year into iOS and macOS worlds. We will learn how to build a sidebar navigation flow by using NavigationView…

In this article, we'll see how Swift determines the entry point of an app, the different attributes used to alter this behavior in iOS, how they work internally, and what Swift 5.3's new @main attribute brings to the table.

It's been a year since SwiftUI was released, and many iOS developers who are lucky to only support the two most current iOS versions will soon be able to start writing SwiftUI in their production apps. There are clear benefits to using SwiftUI (I could probably…

In the iOS application I currently work on the users can choose a video from the device’s gallery and that video gets uploaded to the backend.
This functionality has always worked fine but recently somebody tried to upload s slow motion video and the application…

Learn how to use Core Data in modern @main App struct based applications in Xcode 12 by initializing the Core Data stack manually

All the new SwiftUI features designed for WidgetKit

As already mentioned in my post about Safer Localization in SwiftUI last week, while developing my fi...